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Detailed Description

Zif is a package management backend for PackageKit, designed to do things right. It preforms much better than yum with PackageKit UIs, making the UI output results much faster. As yum is more tested and used than zif, we should keep yum for CLI by default.

The only change will be installing zif by default and making PackageKit use it instead of yum.

Benefit to Fedora

We will get a faster, more responsive package management UI, thus addressing many user complains about a slow package management UI.

Scope

Add zif as default package for all desktops (that has a packagekit UI installed by default) in comps.

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